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If a woman loves a man she does that which is good for him.
Mine Boy (1946)
An unbelievable thing happened. The second colored man knocked the first one down and ran down the street waving to Xuma.
Mine Boy (1946)
Johannes drunk and Johannes sober were two different people.
Mine Boy (1946)
Leah left him and he collapsed in a heap. She looked down and spat. The she raised her heel and brought it down on his face.
Mine Boy (1946)
A man's a man to the extent that he asserts himself. There's no assertion in your mine boy. There is confusion and bewilderment and acceptance. Nothing more.
Mine Boy (1946)
The natives did not like locations, and besides, they were all full, so the white man had started townships in the outlying district of Johannesburg in the hope of killing Vrededorp and Malay Camp.
Mine Boy (1946)
He sat on the bed and held his head in his hands. Eliza had gone out with that sickly monkey dressed in the clothes of a white man. Why, even his hands were soft.
Mine Boy (1946)
He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her.
Mine Boy (1946)
If a man loves a woman he loves her. That is all. There is no bad and there is no good. There is only love. The only thing that is bad is if a man loves a woman and she loves him not.
Mine Boy (1946)
His white man had even tried to make friends with him because the other mine boys respected him so much. But a white man and a black man cannot be friends. They work together. That's all.
Mine Boy (1946)
No! I don't want you to touch me.
Mine Boy (1946)
He's just a mine boy ... Yes. Grand, but not a human being yet. Just a mine boy.
Mine Boy (1946)
A strange group of people, these, he thought. Nothing tied them down. They seem to believe in nothing. But well, they had given him a bed. She had given it to him. She who was the strangest of them all.
Mine Boy (1946)
It is not enough to destroy, you must build as well. Build up a stock of faith in your breast in native Zuma, mine boy, who has no social conscience, who cannot read or write and cannot understand his wanting what you want. **Page 69.
Mine Boy (1946)